District 9810 Project Funds Ltd

District 9810 has formed a Company to facilitate raising funds from corporations, governments and philanthropic trusts for specific multi club or district wide projects that have been approved and accepted by the Company.

Through the creation of Rotary District 9810 Charitable Services Trust, sponsors can receive tax deductions for contributions made in support of approved projects.

Chair

PDG David Tolstrup

Ex Officio

DG Malcolm Chiverton

Director

IPDG Carol Lawton

Director

PDG Merv Ericson

Director

PDG David Alexander

Director
Director

Paul Mee
Michael Jacobs

Director

Margi Sank

Company Secretary

Jenny Hamley

All correspondence to the company should be addressed to: The Secretary, Rotary District 9810 Charitable Services, 153 Roberts Road, Main Ridge Victoria 3928.

Purpose of Rotary District 9810 Charitable Services (RCS)

RCS was established on 31 May 2016 as a Trust to operate as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) non-profit benevolent institution to encourage, promote and extend the object of Rotary International by facilitating multi-club, multi-year community projects within Australia, with the support of the public and private sector. It’s DGR status provides tax deductibility to encourage personal, private and public contributions to Rotary community projects.

RCS can form agreements with organisations to receive tax deductible contributions to enable clubs to carry out projects predominantly aimed at the relief of suffering, disadvantage or disability including projects that involve owning assets and/or constructing facilities. [Schedule of Eligible Projects]

Clubs develop their Project with an eligible beneficiary organisation and resource RCS with the manpower and expertise to carry it out. RCS has the regulatory approvals and internal control systems necessary to permit it to accept contributions from a club or multiple Rotary Clubs, individuals and private funding partners for multi-year projects, providing a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) business entity.

Benefits to Clubs

RCS provides peace of mind to Clubs as it is a Discretionary Investment Trust with legal, insurance and financial management, (including GST and annual audits), for all Club projects set up under the Public Benevolent Institution (PBI) structure. This service alone will save each club time and money avoiding significant establishment costs.

What are the obligations of a Club establishing a project?

Clubs are expected to:

Propose a project in association with a beneficiary organisation that meets the ethical standards appropriate to a Rotary project and agree not to change the purpose of the project from that outlined in the approved application.

Join RCS in establishing a committee of at least three Rotarians to oversee the project.

Provide volunteers to enable RCS to co-manage the project and manage funds sourced by Rotary according to accepted financial management practices.